News Biden administration takes aim at Chinese fentanyl production amid U.S. overdose crisis

[thegreenhand]

Biden administration takes aim at Chinese fentanyl production amid U.S. overdose crisis​

Jerry Dunleavy
Washington Examiner
16 Dec 2021

The Biden administration is going after the fentanyl supply chain with a crackdown on Chinese companies that make the raw materials for the deadly drug behind a record-breaking U.S. overdose epidemic.

The Justice Department announced this week that it filed criminal charges against Chuen Fat Yip, a Wuhan-based drug manufacturer accused of manufacturing and distributing a key ingredient in fentanyl. Prosecutors said they seized $2.3 million from a Yip-connected crypto wallet in November.

Chinese money launderers and fentanyl makers have gone into business with Mexican drug cartels to push fentanyl across the U.S. border. The Trump administration pressured Chinese leader Xi Jinping in 2019 to make fentanyl illegal, but drug labs in Wuhan simply shifted to manufacturing the precursor ingredients for the drugs instead.

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[neversickanymore]

a huge market , that enjoys lavish profits due to prohibition, your never going to be able to prohibit production. If you take out China.. lol. It would just spring up somewhere else. A better strategy would be to make a safe, diverse and enjoyable opiate source to users.